For some people the day comes when they have to declare the great Yes or the great No. It's clear at once who has the Yes ready within him; and saying it, he goes from honor to honor, strong in his conviction. He who refuses does not repent. Asked again, he'd still say no. Yet that no-the right no- drags him down all his life. C.P. Cavafy, trad. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard.